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John Carpenter Appointed CTO of Calgary-based Mob4hire to Enhance Their Crowd Sourced Mobile Application Testing Online Community

Mob4Hire Inc., the leader in crowd sourced mobile application testing and virtual market research, today announced the appointment of John Carpenter as it's Chief Technology Officer.

Calgary, Alberta (PRWEB) February 6, 2009 -- Mob4Hire Inc., the leader in crowd sourced mobile application testing and virtual market research, today announced the appointment of John Carpenter as it's Chief Technology Officer.

As a long-time mobile developer himself, John's expertise will help us continue to refine our collaborative testing processes with our global community of testers Mob4Hire is uniquely suited to testing Location Based Services, so we're also excited that John's background will help us drive ground breaking global innovation in that area of our business.

John is an accomplished Geomatics Engineer and a pioneer in Wireless Location and Location-Based Services industries. He was instrumental in helping to create North America's first mobile location based game, "Swordfish(tm)" and continues to win awards for mobile games and applications.

John was most recently the Architect of Geoservices at Useful Networks. Prior to that, he was Director of Technology at KnowledgeWhere Inc. before it was acquired by Useful Networks.

John is a prolific industry and technology evangelist, posting frequently to his blog 2LinesSoftware He's sought after as an excellent speaker who can bridge the gap between technology and commercialization; his next speaking event is the 2009 National Science Foundation Conference on Media and Education in March.

"As a long-time mobile developer himself, John's expertise will help us continue to refine our collaborative testing processes with our global community of testers," states Stephen King, CEO of Mob4Hire. " Mob4Hire is uniquely suited to testing Location Based Services, so we're also excited that John's background will help us drive ground breaking global innovation in that area of our business."

The irony that Stephen King and John Carpenter are working together shouldn't be lost ... "If you use Mob4Hire, mobile application testing won't be a horror story."

About Mob4Hire

With over 2,191 handsets on 233 carriers represented in 87 countries worldwide, Mob4Hire is the leader in real-world, crowd sourced mobile application testing and virtual market research. A Web 2.0 online community, Mob4Hire materially reduces mobile application testing costs and accelerates time to market by connecting developers with eager, less expensive, crowd-sourced testers and focus groups around the globe. Mob4Hire is a Cambrian House Ideawarz winner, is one of Backbone Magazine's top 20 Web 2.0 firms, won an Under the Radar "League of Their Own" award, and is nominated for both the GSMA Top Innovator award and Mobile Monday Peer award at this year's MWC Barcelona in mid-February. Mob4Hire is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada with offices in Victoria, British Columbia, and London, U.K. For more information, visit Mob4Hire Blog, or contact Allen Poutanen, VP, Business Development, allen@ mob4hire.com.

Here it is the new logo for the company is up and paid for! I liked the design and simplicity of the logo. In the end I had over 200 submissions from 67 designers for the logo design all of which were excellent designs.

More importantly it showed the power of the crowdsourcing model when it comes to getting work done. I am very happy with the logo and the design process. The designers were very flexible and accomodating to anything that I requested. Also you can't argue with the price $250 for a logo.

Now, updating the website...

Contest at 99Designs! 

I figured it was about time that the site gets upgraded from the old brand into something better, cleaner and more focused on locative media. So head on over to the 99Designs and check out the logos that have been submitted. If you have any favorites feel free to drop me a line and let me know.

John

In case you are not familiar with BarCamps/DemoCamps (From Wiki):

BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.

I was really impressed not only with the organization of the meeting but also the openness and candor of the participants and demonstrators. It was a great opportunity to display the capabilities of our company and also network with some great companies in the Calgary (and Edmonton) areas. Christian Idicula of CriticalMass out of Calgary provided a great summary of the presenters.

First post, any pointers?